Abstract
The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and spin pumping induced magnetic damping of CoFeB films can be significantly tuned by the adjacent nonmagnetic layer (Ta or Pt). For the CoFeB/Pt(tPt) structure, both PMA strength and magnetic damping increase with tPt, due to the enhanced interfacial orbital hybridization and spin pumping effects, respectively. By inserting a thin Ta interlayer between CoFeB and Pt, the magnetic easy axis immediately turns into in-plane direction. Meanwhile, time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect measurement shows an obvious reduction in the magnetic damping, which can be explained as the increase of spin current backflow and the decrease of interfacial spin-mixing conductivity. As the Ta interlayer thickness (tTa) increases, the effective damping parameter αs measured at saturation field initially decreases and eventually reaches a constant value of 0.027. The αs value at tTa > 5 nm does not change regardless of the top Pt layer, implying the influence of Pt is completely isolated and the spin diffusion length of Ta is around 5 nm. Our findings provide more insights into the control of PMA strength and spin pumping contribution to magnetic damping.
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